DAWNING OF THE OBAMA ERA...
Something very new is about to happen in the U.S. It is pivotal in many ways. While a change in administrations in Washington, D.C. always results in anger, sour grapes, jubilation, hope, or some other strong reaction, this change is more significant. Our new president is identified as an African American, though he has plenty of Caucasian blood as many African Americans do. That alone makes this significant. But there is much more. On the brink of economic disaster, fighting two wars of questionable outlook and unjustified cause, and a long and undemocratic trek into greed capitalism, the U.S. needs moral and ethical renewal very badly. It is time to put aside petty and not-so-petty prejudices and strong political beliefs, and join in the needed hope and support of the intelligent, noble young man about to rise to take the chair of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt.
"The care of human life and happiness...is the first and only legitimate object of good government." -Thomas Jefferson
"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were." -John F. Kennedy
"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, in their separate and individual capacities." -Abraham Lincoln
"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." -Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Prejudice is the reason of fools." -Voltaire
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices." -Henry David Throreau
"Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?" -Isaac Asimov
"Integrity has no need of rules." -Albert Camus
"War, like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few...The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit." -General Smedley Butler [awarded two Medals of Honor]
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." -Ernest Hemingway
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope...and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert F. Kennedy
